Hyderabad: Bhuvanagiri sub-jail superintendent M. Srinivas disappeared after sending a letter to the media stating that he was being tortured by higher officials and was intentionally attached (temporary transfer) to Adilabad jail.
The Bhuvanagiri police who took up investigation after receiving a complaint from Srinivas’ family tracked his cell phone to Khammam town. Later, they found him at a private hospital undergoing treatment for hypertension.
Bhuvanagiri sub-jail official M. Srinivas at the Asian Hospital in Khammam. He is being treated for BP. (Photo: DC)
Prisons’ DG V.K. Singh transferred superintendent Srinivas to a sub-jail in Adilabad district after several allegations of corruption and complaints about allowing smoking inside the Bhuvanagiri sub-jail. The DG transferred four deputy jailors also from the Bhuvanagiri sub-jail on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the superintendent disappeared and he sent a letter to the media saying that he was fed up with the torture of the DG.
Talking to the media at the hospital, Srinivas said, “The DG is torturing me. Due to that I developed hypertension and had to get admitted in hospital.”
He said the DG transferred him after a complaint from a released prisoner. “The prisoner, S. Kishore, is a drug peddler. How can the director deneral take him seriously and punish us? How can we go to a far away place along with our families?”
DG V.K. Singh said the department had launched a programme to collect feedback from freed prisoners by a third-party agency. “They call prisoners randomly and most of the corruption allegations were about Bhuvanagiri sub-jail and Karimnagar district jail. We banned tobacco inside prisons and this reduced deaths. But the staffers of Bhuvanagiri sub-jail were taking bribes and allowing smoking,” he said.
He said that after an enquiry by Ranga Reddy prisons’ DSP Dasharath-aram a decision was taken to transfer the sub-jail officials.
